May 20

Pimlico
Maryland Sprint (race 9)

Belmont | Race 8 | Post Time 5:13 p.m. (ET) | Go to the FREE TimeformUS PPs 

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The following is a list of DRF resources and content related to the Preakness card at Pimlico on Saturday, May 20.

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Race 2:

Comet Sixty Two (#5)
Last time out, made a strong late run into a slow pace (indicated by blue color-coding in TimeformUS PPs).
Is best around one turn and should be suited to this one-mile distance.
Two of her four lifetime wins have come at Belmont Park.
4-1 on ML
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Race 8:

In race 1, LETTER FLY (3) finished a close fourth off a winter layoff April 21 in an ultra-key $25,000 claimer from which the first, second, third, and sixth horses all excited to excel. She’s back at the same level at 4-1 on the line, and I’ll play her to win at 3-1 or higher.

The pick five begins on race 2, and I’ll start by hitting the “all” button in the contentious $20,000 conditioned claimer.

The Preakness card at Pimlico is filled with multirace wagers, and I’ll look at the second of three pick-four sequences, beginning with race 6. The middle pick four has a guaranteed pool of $500,000, so hopefully we can make a score and roll it into the final pick four of the day. Admittedly, I’m not offering the most efficient pick-four play you’ll ever see, but that’s why you can use DRF TicketMaker to emphasize your opinions and maximize your profits. For the sake of this write-up, I’m going to dive into my “all A’s” pick-four play.

RACE 6

ARCADIA, Calif. - Preakness Day at Santa Anita will include a carryover of $156,205 in the single-ticket jackpot pool of the $2 pick six.

There were multiple winning tickets of the pick six Friday, which paid $19,563.

The single-ticket portion of the pick six has not been hit since May 4.

The winners of the pick six races were El Tovar ($18.60), Love Winning ($22.60), Incredible Luck ($3.80), Quality Line ($5.40), Ebony Cat ($7), and Wealthy Shipman ($7).

Incredible Luck and Quality Line were favored.

The pick-four sequence that ends with Saturday’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico – it has a guaranteed pool of $2 million; it handled $2.29 million last year – is one you might have to get creative in early if you feel the way I do about the big event.

Our 2-year-old Pick at Lone Star last week ran creditably to finish a solid second while our 3-year-old Pix either are not that good or did not like the deeply sloppy track at Pimlico. The babies had a good week with two winners including a BreezeFigs exacta at Belmont and a solitary winner at Santa Anita.

Nyquist, who had won the Kentucky Derby two weeks earlier, came blazing out of the gate in the 2016 Preakness. Going head-and-head with longshot Uncle Lino, Nyquist blasted his first quarter-mile in 22.38 seconds. And with that, it already was fairly clear that there would be no Triple Crown bid in 2016.

The Preakness generally is run at a fast pace considering it’s a 1 3/16-mile, two-turn race for 3-year-olds in May. But there is fast, and there is too fast, and Nyquist’s contested opening quarter was the fastest first fraction ever posted in 141 years of Preakness history.